Ren/Ref/SciRev

The rich Medici family was from the Italy city of

• Florence

• Rome

• Naples

Which Florentine master dissected corpses to learn how bones and muscles work?

• Michelangelo

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Raphael

Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy?

• Renaissance thinkers were interested in the learning and art of ancient Rome.

• A wealthy and powerful merchant class opposed any cultural rebirth.

• Italy's cities had not survived the Middle Ages, and thinkers wanted to restore them.

__________ wrote a guide to rulers on how to gain and maintain power.

• Petrarch

• Machiavelli

• Raphael

The rules of __________ helped Renaissance painters to create realistic art.

• perspective

• humanism

• patrons

__________ created the Pieta and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

• Raphael

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Michelangelo

The Renaissance was a period of

• regional conflicts that ended in wars.

• creativity and change in Europe.

• traditionalism in Europe.

An intellectual movement at the heart of the Renaissance that focused on education and the classics; focus on human matters rather than religious.

• patron

• vernacular

• humanism

A person who provides financial support for the arts.

• humanism

• patron

• vernacular

Everyday language of ordinary people.

• humanism

• patron

• vernacular